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Coalition budget delivers $30bn in tax breaks and money for fossil fuel projects but no measures to help struggling universities or clean energy projects. Follow all the latest news and reaction to the 2021 federal budget as it happens The complete 2021 Australian budget: choose what matters to you‘Team Australia’ is bouncing back, Josh Frydenberg declaresExplore all of our 2021 Australia federal budget coverage...

Lockdown was reason behind sharp fall in number of people treated by NHS for injuries outside the home, say researchersLockdown led to the smallest number of people on record being treated by the NHS for injuries caused by violence away from the home, a study shows.The closure of pubs, clubs and other venues that sell alcohol as part of the bans on social mixing...

Biden outlines steps officials are taking to get the message acrossMitch McConnell says no rollback of Trump-era tax cutsThirty people dead as Netanyahu vows to intensify Gaza attacks 11.43pm BST With less than six weeks to New York’s mayoral primaries, two candidates have left themselves electorally vulnerable for vastly underestimating the median cost of buying a home or apartment in Brooklyn.“In Brooklyn, huh? I...

2020’s heavily male ceremony reversed with wins for Arlo Parks, Haim and Billie Eilish, as Little Mix become first all-woman winner of British groupBrit awards 2021: every performance reviewed, from Coldplay to Arlo ParksDua Lipa has topped the winners at the 2021 Brit awards, calling for Boris Johnson to approve “a fair pay rise” for frontline NHS staff as she picked up gongs including...

Report says killings during British army operations in Belfast in 1971 were unjustified Ten people killed in Belfast during a British army operation in 1971 were unarmed, innocent civilians and posed no threat to soldiers, an inquest in Northern Ireland has found.The damning findings in a long-awaited coroner’s report implicated the army in an atrocity to rival Bloody Sunday, potentially galvanising a new push...

Minister says country ‘shaken up’ by killing of Caroline Crouch, 20, while husband tied up and dog hung from banisterThe Greek government has offered a €300,000 (about £257,000) reward to try to track down the culprits behind the murder of a British-born student in her suburban Athens home.The reward was publicised hours after Caroline Crouch, 20, was strangled in front of her baby daughter...

Guardiola’s side are champions for third time in four seasons‘This was the hardest one,’ says City’s managerPep Guardiola said his third Premier League title as Manchester City manager was “the hardest one” to win after they were crowned champions following Manchester United’s defeat by Leicester. Related: Manchester City’s title is a triumph of class and refinement on the hoof | Barney Ronay Continue reading...

Ruth Gilligan’s thriller about eight men who cull cattle in rural Ireland wins £10,000 for books that ‘best evoke the spirit of a place’Ruth Gilligan’s literary thriller The Butchers, set in the Irish borderlands during the BSE crisis, has won the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje prize for books that “best evoke the spirit of a place”.Gilligan’s novel beat titles including James Rebanks’ memoir...

Covid vaccine maker passes its remuneration policy but suffers sizeable rebellion Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage AstraZeneca has suffered a substantial shareholder rebellion over proposals to hand its chief executive, Pascal Soriot, bigger bonus awards for the second consecutive year.Nearly 40% voted against the policy, which could hand him pay and perks of nearly £18m for 2021. Continue reading...

Architect known for his flamboyant, postmodernist buildings in Chicago, Berlin and other cities around the worldStanding on a corner of downtown Chicago as a dazzling rocket ship of mirrored glass and salmon pink steel, the James R Thompson Center, more than any other building, encapsulates the flamboyant oeuvre of the German-American architect Helmut Jahn, who has died aged 81 in a cycling accident. The...

The crypto asset is down more than 30% this week but is still up by more than 1,000% from the start of 2021A senior manager at Goldman Sachs in London has quit the US investment bank after making millions from investing in Dogecoin, the joke crypto asset which has risen by more than 1,000% in value this year.City sources said Aziz McMahon, a managing...

PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Switch, PC, Mac; Unknown WorldsSurvive under the waves on a frozen planet in this freeform adventure where following the instinct to explore is the real goalI’m planning a trip. I’m going to load my sea truck with provisions, pick a direction and travel as far as I dare before pitching camp on an iceberg. First up, I...

Messaging app will begin to turn off features until users agree to Facebook’s updated terms of serviceIf you have not agreed to WhatsApp’s controversial new terms of service by 15 May, the app will begin to turn off features until you do, Facebook announced in an update to its FAQ page.At that point, the screen asking users to accept the terms of service set...

The preposterous Hollywood Foreign Press Association gravy train might have chugged on for ever if its members had just swallowed their pride and done more for diversityAn investigative report by the Los Angeles Times into the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, that notoriously rackety organisation which administers the Golden Globes, has shown an eminently corruptible body drenched in antediluvian attitudes; this has resulted in NBC...

Great Eastern Brood set to emerge in the last two weeks of May and into early June, with hordes of bugs to push up from undergroundBrood X, otherwise known as the great cicada hatching of 2021, is drawing closer as soil temperatures in some parts of America move closer to 64F (18C) – the trigger, according to scientists, for trillions of the insects to...

Nearly 59m hectares of forests have regrown since 2000, showing that regeneration in some places is paying offAn area of forest the size of France has regrown around the world over the past 20 years, showing that regeneration in some places is paying off, a new analysis has found.Nearly 59m hectares of forests have regrown since 2000, the research found, providing the potential to...

Leading environmentalist criticises Armin Laschet for refusing to sack former spy chief Hans-Georg Maaßen The conservative candidate for German chancellor in September’s elections has been told by the country’s leading environmentalist that he is legitimising antisemitism by refusing to oust the former head of domestic intelligence from his party.The accusation was levelled at Armin Laschet, the leader of the CDU, by Luisa Neubauer, the...

Concerns over bonds involving Trump’s then daughter in-law Vanessa and daughter Tiffany revealed in Carol Leonnig’s Zero FailTwo Trump family members got “inappropriately – and perhaps dangerously – close” to agents protecting them while Donald Trump was president, according to a new book on the US Secret Service. Related: Secret Service extension for Trump’s adult children cost $140,000 in a month Continue reading...

Seven students have been killed and 16 injured in a school shooting in the city of Kazan in Russia’s Tatarstan republic, its president said. State media previously reported that 11 had people died, citing local emergency officials.Footage from the scene showed emergency services assisting students out of the building's upper floors.Seven dead in school shooting in Kazan, says Russian governor Continue reading...

Ailing sectors targeted, as treasurer releases Australia’s 2021 budget. Follow all the latest as it happens Victoria announces list of Covid exposure sites Aged care, women and infrastructure: what to expect from the budgetAustralia’s housing crisis: how is the Coalition going to fix it?Australia’s federal court rejects urgent bid to overturn India travel banGuardian Essential poll: Australians divided over government’s ban on travel from...

Governor of Tatarstan region describes incident as ‘great tragedy for the whole country’A gunman has attacked a school in the Russian city of Kazan, killing seven students and a teacher, Russian officials said.Rustam Minnikhanov, the governor of the Tatarstan republic where Kazan is the capital, said four male and three female eighth-grade students died in “a great tragedy for the whole country”. Minnikhanov’s press...

Seven of the deaths were members of a single family, including three children, health officials sayTwenty-four people, including nine children, have died in Gaza, the enclave’s health ministry has announced, following all-night airstrikes from the Israeli military, which accused Palestinian militants of launching more than 200 rockets.After weeks of intense violence in Jerusalem, Hamas, the Islamist group that rules inside Gaza, fired a barrage...

Food has felt more important than ever this past year – particularly meals that offer solace. From rösti to Coco Pops, here are the dishes that got us throughFor me, lockdown has meant an absolutely manic schedule, working from home with back-to-back Zoom calls and long hours. Crumpets have been my saviour. Yes, factory made, perfectly consistent and versatile: top with yoghurt and frozen...

Hancock confirms NHS app will be used to permit travel; EU pressuring AstraZeneca to deliver 120m doses by end of JuneUS authorises Pfizer coronavirus vaccine for children ages 12 to 15Explainer: the deadly ‘black fungus’ seen in Covid patients in IndiaNepal urges climbers to return used oxygen canisters amid Covid crisisDozens of suspected Covid victims wash up on Ganges River banksBoris Johnson confirms further...

Concerns raised over food, lack of fresh air and social distancing after coming back from red list countriesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageTravellers staying in quarantine hotels in the UK after returning from “red list” countries have complained of “prison-like” conditions, including windows that do not open, a lack of fresh air, exercise and decent food.The Guardian spoke to nine travellers who...

Callum Wheeler, 21, remanded in custody and due to appear at Maidstone crown court on ThursdayA 21-year-old man has been remanded in custody after appearing in court charged with the murder of PCSO Julia James.The 53-year-old was found dead in Akholt Wood near her home in Snowdown, Kent, on 27 April. Continue reading...

While the governor says the line is a ‘ticking time bomb’, the company says Line 5 has never experienced a leakThe state of Michigan has told a Canadian energy company it must shut down a controversial oil and gas pipeline by Wednesday amid growing fears that a spill would be catastrophic to the region, in a feud which threatens to strain relations between Canada...

The indie-rocker is now a touchstone for a generation of young songwriters – and after learning to channel her pain and frustration, her 18th album is one of her bestJuliana Hatfield speaks with deliberation: her thoughts unfurl after pregnant pauses and are sharpened by astute clarifications. “I’m sorry, I lost my train of thought,” she says at one point, doubling back to ensure her...

Twenty-four states object to bankruptcy proposal for Sacklers to settle lawsuits by paying $4.3bn but family would keep about $7bnNearly half of US states have joined growing opposition to a highly unusual bankruptcy plan that would protect the wealth of the Sackler family after it made billions of dollars from selling the drug that kickstarted the US opioid epidemic.Attorney generals of 24 states, members...

Across Europe, worker-led delivery collectives are springing up to reclaim control from corporate platformsCristina González did a lot of waiting in 2018. Back then, the 29-year-old was a courier for the Spanish food delivery platform Glovo in her Basque home town, Vitoria-Gasteiz. She talks about feeling as if she was on standby the whole time: “You’re effectively having to be working constantly.”While Glovo serves...

Rio’s favelas have suffered countless horrors since the drug conflict began to intensify in the 1980s and the carnage in Jacarezinho has caused a wave of protestShaken, shoeless and with a gaping bullet wound to one of his feet, the young man staggered through Flávia Luciana’s front door at around 8am last Thursday as Rio’s decades-long drug conflict plumbed horrifying new depths.“Help me! For...

Fan Bingbing stars as an emperor’s wife having her portrait painted in this artful yet inert period dramaThis French-Chinese co-production about an earlier French-Chinese collaboration offers handsome pageantry amid its lavish recreation of 18th-century imperial court life, but it isn’t quite enough to compensate for a puttering narrative motor. Longtime Apichatpong Weerasethakul producer Charles de Meaux has turned director with a far eastern equivalent...

Residents of Hangzhou warned to stay indoors as search continues for leopard escaped from safari parkResidents in a Chinese city were told to stay indoors as authorities released flocks of chickens as bait to track down a leopard that escaped from a safari park, state media have reported.The leafy lakeside city of Hangzhou has been on edge since late last week, when residents began...

Census data reveals demographic timebomb, adding pressure on Beijing to boost incentives for couples to have more childrenChina has reported the slowest population growth since the early 1960s, despite scrapping its one-child policy in 2015 to encourage more births and stave off a looming demographic crisis.On Tuesday, the government released the results of its once-a-decade census, saying the overall population of China grew to...

Usually very rare, mucormycosis has a high mortality rate and is difficult to treat A rare black fungus that invades the brain is being increasingly seen in vulnerable patients in India, including those with Covid-19, as the health system continues to struggle in the midst of the pandemic.The health ministry on Sunday released an advisory on how to treat the infection. In the state...

With one psychiatrist for 750,000 people and huge stigma about mental health, patients get little helpRadhwan Ali Hassan lives with his mother in a small house perched at the top of a sleepy Yemeni village called Aqeeqah, on the outskirts of Taiz city. From inside his bare-walled room, the 35-year-old hears the distant sound of an ice-cream van. He sees children running past his...

New wind and solar power projects in China, Europe and the US spurred 45% rise in capacityThe world’s renewable energy industry grew at its fastest pace since 1999 last year, despite the disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, and may have established a standard for growth in the future, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).The global energy watchdog revealed that the delivery of...

Analysis: Beijing’s census data confirms trend reflected across a region that is looked to as engine of post-pandemic growthFull report: China’s population growing at slowest rate in generationsFor many years China watchers have been concerned that its ageing population will slow economic growth, causing social as well as political problems. So today’s census data may be an alarm bell for leaders in Beijing.But it...

After the deaths of her son and husband, Rhian Mannings emerged slowly from grief to start a charity and find love again. What does her experience tell us about how suffering can change us?In February 2012, Rhian was a happy, busy wife, mother of three and a PE teacher in Cardiff. She and her husband, Paul, had met on a blind date in their...

Whitechapel Bell Foundry dates back to 1570, and was the factory in which Big Ben and the Liberty Bell were made. But it shut in 2017 and a fight for its future has been raging ever sinceOn a November evening in 2019, Nigel Taylor, who had until recently been the longest-standing employee at the oldest factory in England, took a seat inside a council...

I’ve watched from the UK as family and friends share increasingly desperate news. Nepal’s leaders have ensured the lack of preparationCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageWaiting for India’s Covid wave to break over Nepal has been as painful as it was inevitable. Now that it’s happening, this country of 30 million people is even more hapless and unprepared than India seems to...

Thai foreign correspondents club says the reporters face ‘certain arrest and persecution’ if deported back to MyanmarThree journalists and two activists from Myanmar who fled over the border to Thailand have been arrested for illegal entry and could face possible deportation, according to the reporters’ employer.Broadcaster DVB (Democratic Voice of Burma) said their lives would be “in serious danger” if they were forced back...

Twenty-metre-long unfinished tunnel beneath Yongah Hill detention centre had been dug ‘over several months’A 20-metre-long unfinished escape tunnel has been discovered at an immigration detention centre in Western Australia, refugee advocates say.The nascent tunnel – dug three metres underground – was found on Monday morning, built underneath an accommodation block in Falcon compound of the Yongah Hill detention centre. Continue reading...

Tensions between Israel and the Palestinians escalated dramatically on Monday as militant groups in Gaza fired rockets into Israel and Israel responded with strikes on the Palestinian territory following a police raid on the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem that left hundreds injured.Israel launches airstrikes on Gaza strip after Hamas rocket attacksJerusalem seethes as the rockets begin on day of rising tension Continue reading...

Tensions between Israel and the Palestinians escalated dramatically on Monday as militant groups in Gaza fired rockets into Israel and Israel responded with strikes on the Palestinian territory following a police raid on the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem that left hundreds injured.Israel launches airstrikes on Gaza strip after Hamas rocket attacksJerusalem seethes as the rockets begin on day of rising tension Continue reading...

Levelling up agenda accompanied by bills bringing in voter ID and banning conversion practicesMinisters are to unveil a legislative programme aimed at its new electoral strongholds in northern England and the Midlands, with a Queen’s speech focused on adult education and homeownership.It also features proposals to bring in mandatory voter ID, which has been condemned by US civil rights groups as akin to Republican-style...

Tuesday: Budget to pump billions into the economy as the government attempts to cement recovery. Plus: enjoying the return of colder weatherGood morning. It’s Tuesday 11 May, which means one thing – budget day! So hold on tight as economic news will be dominating the headlines this week. We’ve also got plenty on the controversial India travel ban, which looks set to remain in...

In an exclusive interview, the legendary manager and son Jason reflect on the brain haemorrhage that nearly killed him and the film they have just made, his upbringing in Scotland, the lows and highs at Manchester United, his admiration for Steven Gerrard … and that Champions League final “You’re lying on your bed and you are on your own,” Sir Alex Ferguson says as...

Deal values ‘yet to be formed’ technology division of THG at $6.3bnThe Hut Group (THG), the online retailer empire run by billionaire Matthew Moulding, has struck a complex joint venture deal with Japanese investment giant SoftBank that values a “yet to be formed” technology division of THG at $6.3bn (£4.5bn).The deal, announced on Monday, values THG Ingenuity, which Moulding described as a “social media...

US president said Russia ‘has some responsibility’ to deal with ransomware attacks while pipeline shut since FridayJoe Biden said on Monday that “so far” there has been no evidence that the cyber attack late last week on a US pipeline had any involvement from the Russian state but that he believes Russia “has some responsibility” to deal with ransomware attacks emanating from its soil.“It’s...